Burma: 40 Rohingya Villages Burned Since October Satellite Imagery Shows New Destruction in Rakhine
(New York, December 18, 2017) – Analysis of satellite imagery reveals new destruction of Rohingya villages during October and November...
Human Rights Watch
Dec 19, 2017
Rohingya refugees tell of Burmese military targeting children and the elderly
Rohingya refugees fleeing violence in Burma have told how the military targeted children and the elderly in sickening attacks. The...
Daily Mail
Dec 19, 2017
IRIN Special Report: Inside the Congolese army’s campaign of rape and looting in South Kivu
Her face was tired and bruised, her arms bone-thin, her dress torn in several places. “Look at my body,” she whispered. “Is this the body...
IRIN News
Dec 18, 2017
Yazidi women struggle to return to daily life after enduring Islamic State brutality
Yazidi women, who were sold as sex slaves by Islamic State militants, are now returning to their families from formerly ISIS-controlled...
PBS
Dec 18, 2017
As Venezuela collapses, children are dying of hunger
SAN CASIMIRO, Venezuela — Kenyerber Aquino Merchán was 17 months old when he starved to death. His father left before dawn to bring him...
New York Times 1
Dec 17, 2017
Rape of Rohingya women by Myanmar security forces ‘sweeping, methodical,’ investigation finds
This combo photo comprises of portraits of some of the Rohingya Muslim women taken during an interview with The Associated Press in...
Asia Pacific
Dec 12, 2017
Myanmar military’s rape of Rohingya sweeping, methodical
The soldiers arrived, as they often did, long after sunset. It was June, and the newlyweds were asleep in their home, surrounded by the...
The Globe and Mail
Dec 11, 2017
Violence against women in South Sudan is occurring at twice the global average rate
The country’s civil war has killed more than 50,000 people, forced more than two million to flee abroad and plunged parts of the country...
The Independent
Nov 29, 2017
BURUNDI: This east African country is waging a war on its women
Burundi has been in political turmoil ever since president Pierre Nkurunziza ran for a third term in 2015, flouting the country’s...
Linsey Chutel | Quartz Africa
Nov 29, 2017
Five Questions About Sexual Violence in the Rohingya Crisis
The Five Questions Series is a forum for scholars, government officials, civil society leaders, and foreign policy practitioners to...
Jamille Bigio |Council on Foreign Relations
Nov 9, 2017
Bridging Pakistan’s Gender Divide
“Our people won’t let a girl study beyond the third grade (eight or nine years old). But this girl here cries and says: ‘I want to...
International Crisis Group 1
Nov 7, 2017
Expose Abuses of Women in Detention in North Korea
A North Korean soldier stands guard at the entrance of a women’s prison near Chongsong, North Korea, May 31, 2009. © 2009 Reuters...
Human Rights Watch
Nov 6, 2017
